PATENT RIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patent right mean? 

• PATENT RIGHT (noun)
  The noun PATENT RIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention

  Familiarity information: PATENT RIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATENT RIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("patent right" is a kind of...):

legal right (a right based in law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)